ANCHORAGE, Alaska — ConocoPhillips, which last week got U.S. federalgovernment approval for the enormous Willow oil drilling job in Alaska, in-depth factors for a natural gas leakage at another North Slope field that triggered the evacuation of 300 staffmembers last year.
Officials with the business stated that pumping 170 barrels (27,028 litres) of diesel fuel, a freeze-prevention fluid, into a disposal well triggered a element to stopworking and led to the subsequent leakage, the Anchorage Daily News reported.
ConocoPhillips authorities spoke Thursday at an Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission hearing in Anchorage about the 2022 leakage at the Alpine field in northern Alaska. Delayed acknowledgment permitted the leakage to continue for days, and the business had not preparedfor the shallow underground zone to consistof considerable quantities of gas.
Erica Livingston, a wells chief engineer for ConocoPhillips Alaska, stated the well style hasactually been utilized numerous times formerly without problems. However, it was not sealed in the location of the zone where the leakage tookplace since that location was not expe